Cast 64 bit off_t to 32 bit size_t
Some systems have sizeof(off_t) == 8 while sizeof(size_t) == 4. This implies that we are able to access and work on files whose maximum length is around 2^63-1 bytes, but we can only malloc or mmap somewhat less than 2^32-1 bytes of memory. On such a system an implicit conversion of off_t to size_t can cause the size_t to wrap, resulting in unexpected and exciting behavior. Right now we are working around all gcc warnings generated by the -Wshorten-64-to-32 option by passing the off_t through xsize_t(). In the future we should make xsize_t on such problematic platforms detect the wrapping and die if such a file is accessed. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(const char *path, const char *con
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die("Cannot lstat %s", path);
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read_from = path;
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}
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fin_size = st.st_size;
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fin_size = xsize_t(st.st_size);
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buf = xmalloc(fin_size+1);
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mode = canon_mode(st.st_mode);
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switch (st.st_mode & S_IFMT) {
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